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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1873.

Fixing Annual Meeting for the Mataura District under Petty Sessions Act.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865," it is enacted that as soon as conveniently may be after the establishment of a Petty Sessions District, and afterwards from time to time as may be deemed expedient, the Governor shall, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint a meeting of the Justices of the Peace resident in such district to be yearly held within such district, at some specified time and place, for the purpose of choosing a Chairman of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attendance: And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the eleventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the Petty Sessions District hereinafter named was defined and established:

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight and seventy-one, Cameron's Inn, Mataura Bridge, was appointed to be the place, and the first Tuesday in the month of April the time, at which a meeting of the Justices of the Peace resident within such district should be yearly held, for the purpose of choosing a Chairman of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attendance: And whereas no meeting was held at the place appointed on the first Tuesday of April last:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me, do hereby proclaim and appoint that for the Mataura District a meeting of the Justices of the Peace resident within such district shall be yearly held at Cameron's Inn, Mataura Bridge, at twelve o'clock noon on the first Tuesday in the month of June, for the purpose of choosing a Chairman of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attendance.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Land taken for a Public Road under "The Public Works Lands Act, 1864."

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of May, 1873.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Public Works Lands Act, 1864," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to order that any public work to be defined in such Order shall be made, and that after the publication of such Order in the Government Gazette, the Governor may compulsorily take and permanently hold all such lands as may be necessary for the construction of such public work under the provisions in the said Act contained:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in him, order that the public work hereinafter defined shall be made; that is to say, that a Public Road shall be laid out and made over the parcel of land described by the boundaries specified in the Schedule hereto.